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[gotica.livejournal.com]

So I've been pretty much single handedly migrating about 300 people to exchange... why? because people(IT) do not know how to read instructions and/or follow them so that people get migrated properly. Because people don't get migrated properly they have to call up and end up causing more work for me because people(IT) don't read error messages and go 'wats wrong wit dis? duhh' and so I have to stop migrating more people to tell them they left their brain in a previous life, if they had one that is.

And so I don't trust people(IT) to do it right.

*sighs*

Memoirs of a postfix to exchange 2007 migration.

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[poly-scott.livejournal.com]

Perhaps your IT people are just dragging their feet rather than inflict a high speed virus replicator on your users. Microsoft is never the right answer, unless the question is, what is the wrong answer. I'd quit if we went to exchange, but thankfully, we're a Microsoft free zone where I work.

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[gotica.livejournal.com]

I am part of the IT people, yes I have issues following instructions sometimes but I included pictures on the doco to make sure it was fool proof...

Unfortunately the powers that be demanded Exchange be deployed to the environment before I started working there. I had the joy of picking up the ball after they worked out all the DC issues that needed to be fixed first :-\

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[poly-scott.livejournal.com]

I totally get that. We convinced them otherwise by telling the C level folks that the entire admin staff would leave if they did that. It does sound like it's too late for your environment, but good suggestions (depending on several factors, of course) are OpenLDAP plus Zimbra if you ever get to revisit the discussion. :-)

Oh - and, I love your icon. :-) It is full of win. :-D

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[gotica.livejournal.com]

*tattoos suggestions on forehead*

Danke, the artist who did that artwork have some brilliant stuff. www.rachaelhuntington.com

Re: Or,

[poly-scott.livejournal.com]

I thought that was one of her's! I love her stuff. :-D

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[gotica.livejournal.com]

Oh yea ditto. Pitty her commission costs are so high :(

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[superbus.livejournal.com]

Heh.

Our office went from IMAP3 to Exchange, which goes directly against one of the main reasons I came to this company in the first place; they told me that we were a bastion of open source ideals and though we used XP normally and supported Windows programmes, we had the freedom to use whatever we wanted, and were encouraged to go open source on our programmes.

Since then, we've been "discouraged" from using Pidgin for Jabber (they don't like OTR), "discouraged" from using OpenOffice (because some executives like sending out documents that use proprietary crap in Word), and have forcibly moved over from IMAP to Exchange. Why? It comes with fucking Calender capabilities. Oh boy! A CALENDER! So the salespeople are creaming their pants, and I'm forced to either use the "lite" webportal (as the "real" webportal is IE only, and I won't use IE), or use Outlook. They DID give us instructions for migrating our stuff over from IMAP to Outlook using Thunderbird, but that proved useless; we were in such a hurry to dump IMAP that they deleted my account. Year and a half worth of emails... bye!

Normally, I'd be right there with you, but with the economy being what it is, I'm taking what I have and holding onto it for dear life.

[digitalraven]

And yet most IT people can communicate in a comprehensible fashion. And rant in an entertaining fashion.

Any IT department that's not migrating to sExchange is a sensible one.

[gotica.livejournal.com]

My brain is not functioning enough to work out whether thats a sarcastic response or not.

Unfortunately the powers that be demanded sExchange :P be deployed to the environment before I started working there. I had the joy of picking up the ball after they worked out all the DC issues that needed to be fixed first :-\

[mattcaron.livejournal.com]

Memoirs of a postfix to exchange 2007 migration.

Pssst! You're going the wrong way! :-)

[gotica.livejournal.com]

I don't have enough knowledge to make staying on postfix work the way they want it to. And they're too cheap to hire anyone who does in addition to powers that be wanting it that way.

I even hinted to the CEO about completely moving away from windows to save a hefty chunk of money each year, he didn't like the sound of it plus there would have been quite a few cross platform incompatibilities which would then cost a chunk to fix.

[gholam.livejournal.com]

Um, postfix is a basic MTA, Exchange is the #1 groupware suite on the market, can't even really compare the two. I suppose you could compare postfix to Exchange 2007 Edge Server, but that's just a component of Exchange, and an optional one at that.

[mattcaron.livejournal.com]

Hmm... migrating from a standards-compliant, open source, enterprise level piece of infrastructure to a proprietary lock up your data annoying piece of shit....

No, I think I had it right the first time...

[gholam.livejournal.com]

Exchange competes with Notes and GroupWise. Comparing postfix to Exchange is like comparing a kid's scooter to a 10-ton dumptruck.

[ravan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they keep pushing sExchange and Active Directory where I work, too. They want us to retire our postfix, and go totally sExchange. All so the corporate weenies can schedule meetings without a pen and paper, or even talking to people.

Don't even get me started on having to support Outhouselook. It causes the most user issues of any piece of MicroSloth software that we use.

My next gig, I want to have nothing to do with Windows. I want to be able to claim a complete lack of knowledge of its inner workings.

[gotica.livejournal.com]

Its kinda the reverse here, all most of the problems we have are caused by specialty airline software *grumbles*